Cathedral News

Feast day: 17 January

Bishop Brendan Kelly will be installed on Sunday 11 February 2018 at 3:00pm.

St Lucy, third-century martyr, one of eight women named in the canon of the mass.

Bishop Brendan Kelly has been appointed by Pope Francis as Bishop of Galway & Kilmacduagh and Apostolic Administrator of Kilfenora. He will be installed in the Cathedral on Sunday 11 February 2018.

Christmas is one of the most joyful seasons of the church year, and is celebrated in the Cathedral with appropriate solemnity. Here are details of the various events taking place at this time. Here also are details of confessions in the days before Christmas.

Music for Galway, Irish Baroque Orchestra and Resurgam Choir present a performance of G. F. Handel's ever-popular oratorio Messiah in the Cathedral on Saturday 9 December at 7:30pm.

The Three Tenors - Dominic McGorian, Shane Morgan and Derek Moloney - present a concert of popular classical music in the Cathedral on Thursday 21 December at 8:00pm. The choir of Scoil Íde will also appear on the night.

Local Galway group The A Capella Knights will present two Christmas concerts entitled The Knights before Christmas, in aid of Galway Simon Community, in the Cathedral on Saturday 2 December: a children’s concert at 3:00pm and an evening concert at 7:45pm.

This seventh-century Welsh saint is remembered on 3 November.

St Alphonsus Rodriguez was a Spanish Jesuit. He lived from 1532 until 1617.